Author: Pickover, Clifford A. Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Beginner's Guide to Immortality is a celebration of unusual lives and creative thinkers who punched through ordinary cultural norms while becoming successful in their own niches. In his latest and g...
Author: Baxter, Brian Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is considered in its application to human beings in this book. Brian Baxter examines the various sociobiological approaches to the explanation of huma...
Author: Sieden, Steven Publisher: Divine Arts Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Known as a "Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century," engineer, designer, inventor, and futurist Dr. R. Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller had a keen awareness that we're all in this together. Understandin...
Author: Pilla, Raffaele Publisher: Dissertation.Com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Growth Associated Protein 43 (GAP-43), isolated from rat brain and considered a neuronal marker, is involved in neurite branching, cytoskeleton remodelling, neuronal development and protection. Howeve...
Author: Thompson, R. Paul Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Humans have been modifying plants and animals for millennia. The dawn of molecular genetics, however, has kindled intense public scrutiny and controversy. Crops, and the food products which include th...
Author: Foster, John Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: John Foster (1770 - 1843) was an English essayist who was educated for the Baptist ministry. He later devoted himself to a career in literature. He contributed nearly 200 articles to the Eclectic Revi...
Author: Colyvan, Mark Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This introduction to the philosophy of mathematics focuses on contemporary debates in an important and central area of philosophy. The reader is taken on a fascinating and entertaining journey through...
Author: Johnston, Barry Woods Publisher: AuthorHouse Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As I turned the pages and began reading this odyssey of Barry Johnston, as a veteran and artist, my interest increased, and I was pleased that I had agreed to review it. 'As We Sow' is not a book of f...
Author: Wilson, Jack Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate the conditions an entity must satisfy to be a living individual. He explores the reason ...
Author: Mikkonen, Jukka Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works...
Author: Mikkonen, Jukka Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Can literary fictions convey significant philosophical views, understood in terms of propositional knowledge? This study addresses the philosophical value of literature by examining how literary works...
Author: Russell, Nicholas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years governments and scientific establishments have been encouraging the development of professional and popular science communication. This book critically examines the origin of this driv...
Author: Smith, Wesley, J Publisher: Joyous Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Unraveling the mystery of stem cells, Wesley J. Smith illuminates what's on the line in the controversy over using them for research. He describes the emerging science of human cloning-the most radica...
Author: Hunter, Lynette Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Critiques of Knowing" explores what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. Lynette Hunter elegantly weaves together such vast areas of thought as rhetoric, politics, AI, com...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: William Dembski, Michael Ruse, and other prominent philosophers provide here a comprehensive balanced overview of the debate concerning biological origins - a controversial dialectic since Darwin publ...
Author: Parsons, Keith M. Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this examination of the "Science Wars", where science is debated not as discovering facts of the world but rather constructing artifacts disguised as objective truths, the author cites some major d...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Although both philosophers and scientists are interested in how to obtain reliable knowledge in the face of error, there is a gap between their perspectives that has been an obstacle to progress. By m...
Author: Ruse, Michael Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ruse, a leading expert on Charles Darwin, presents a fictional dialogue among characters with sharply contrasting positions regarding the tensions between science and religious belief.
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Originally published in 1952. This book is a critical survey of the views of scientific inference that have been developed since the end of World War I. It contains some detailed exposition of ideas -...
Description: Originally published in 1952. This book is a critical survey of the views of scientific inference that have been developed since the end of World War I. It contains some detailed exposition of ideas -...
Author: Koyre, Alexander Publisher: Start Publishing LLC Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Time and again, when studying the history of scientific and philosophical thought in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries-- they are, indeed, so closely interrelated and linked together that, s...
Author: Seidensticker, Bob Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Everyone knows that today's rate of technological change is unprecedented. With technological breakthroughs from the Internet to cell phones to digital music and pictures, everyone knows that the soci...
Author: Seidensticker, Bob Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Everyone knows that today's rate of technological change is unprecedented. With technological breakthroughs from the Internet to cell phones to digital music and pictures, everyone knows that the soci...
Author: O'Keefe, Robert J. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The controversy surrounding the origin of the universe, earth, and all living things is an ongoing debate in the public sphere. In Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism, author Robert J. O'Keefe p...
Author: O'Keefe, Robert J. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The controversy surrounding the origin of the universe, earth, and all living things is an ongoing debate in the public sphere. In Gaining the High Ground over Evolutionism, author Robert J. O'Keefe p...
Author: Griffiths, Paul / Stotz, Karola Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the past century, nearly all of the biological sciences have been directly affected by discoveries and developments in genetics, a fast-evolving subject with important theoretical dimensions. In th...
Author: Sarkar,Husain Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more effective? What sorts of negotiations would occur among them and unde...
Author: N/A Publisher: Engineering Science Reference Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Handbook of Research on Computational Science and Engineering: Theory and Practice is a reference for interested researchers and decision-makers who want a timely introduction to the possibilities in ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character ...
Author: Dalrymple, Alfred John Publisher: Dalrymple Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: If there is an enabler of out existence it is a particulate field... also it is ethereal, in the entirety of it, and the I of it. Is Consciousness that field? It rests in its own fullness as one thing...
Author: Dalrymple, Alfred John Publisher: Dalrymple Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: If there is an enabler of out existence it is a particulate field... also it is ethereal, in the entirety of it, and the I of it. Is Consciousness that field? It rests in its own fullness as one thing...
Author: Hofstadter, Douglas R. Publisher: Basic Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Douglas Hofstadter’s critically acclaimed return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach—an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity.
Author: Spellman, Frank R. / Price-Bayer, Joni Publisher: Government Institutes Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today, only a few people outside of the scientific community are conversant with the tradition of science and its many breakthroughs. The rest are scientifically illiterate. So say Frank R. Spellman a...
Author: Lipton, Peter Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How do we go about weighing evidence, testing hypotheses, and making inferences? The model of "inference to the best explanation" (IBE) -- that we infer the hypothesis that would, if correct, provide ...
Author: Harms, William F. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a full...
Author: Templeton, John Marks / Herrmann, Robert L. Publisher: Templeton Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The great paradox of science in the twentieth century is that the more we learn, the less we seem to know. In this volume, John Templeton and scientist Robert Herrmann address this paradox.Reviewing t...
Author: Lacey, Hugh Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values and looks at challenges to the view, from postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, third-w...
Author: Azzouni, Jody Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument onl...
Description: Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument onl...
Author: Wray, K. Brad Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) has been enduringly influential in philosophy of science, challenging many common presuppositions about the nature of science and the growth of scient...
Author: Turner,Derek Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despi...
Description: Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despi...
Author: Conway, Erik M. / Oreskes, Naomi Publisher: Bloomsbury Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The U.S. scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science, and issues affecting quality of life. Our scientists have produced landmark stud...
Author: Leary, Timothy Publisher: Ronin Publishing Inc Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We humans evolve through eight circuits. In the 1960s we entered the 6th circuit - Rapture - as we embraced sexual liberation, sensual training, hedonic dress, massage and eroticization of art. Senso...
Author: LaPorte, Joseph Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: According to the received tradition, the language used to to refer to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as theories about these kinds are refined. In this illuminating book, Jo...
Author: Grossinger, Richard Publisher: North Atlantic Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This collage-like book is an inquiry into the nature of life and of existence itself. Simultaneously philosophical, spiritual, and literary, it pushes the boundaries of this area of thought beyond the...
Author: Turner, Derek Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the wake of the paleobiological revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, paleontologists continue to investigate far-reaching questions about how evolution works. Many of those questions have a philosoph...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the perennial themes in philosophy is the problem of our access to the world around us; do our perceptual systems bring us into contact with the world as it is or does perception depend upon ou...
